On the whole I love life and follow the path of my soul. In fact I think the only reason I love life is BECAUSE I only do that which I feel stirred to in my heart. If I can’t do something with joy and gratitude in my heart, then I feel that it's not worth doing at all...

I’d say however, like many people my life is quite a busy one. Apart from helping with the smooth running of the Openhand Foundation, I also home-school, teaching my child at home (a full time occupation in itself), make all our meals from scratch, grow some of our own food and invest myself in making the most of the resources that are available to us rather than ascribing overly to Industrial Consumerism.

One of things that I have learned over the years is the value of taking care of certain fundamentals. If I didn’t I would be on constant burn out and life would be a terrible drain!

Over the years my lifestyle has naturally adapted itself around the natural expression of my soul. I’ve been guided to eat well (i.e. healthy, whole food, vegetarian, dairy-free, organic, free from additives, chemicals etc). In that respect, less energy is spent digesting a less than compatible diet, freeing up more energy to do other things. I’ve been guided to running a household that respects divine consciousness (well... as far as I can without resorting to living in a tree-house). Our space is clear, free of clutter, free of harmful chemicals, painted with eco-paint, electro-smog and negative influences are kept to a minimum by not having t.v., using low energy light bulbs, operating a mobile phone free home, turning off and unplugging appliances not in use (our electricity bill is ridiculously low!). We respect our space and feel humble gratitude for everything that we have been blessed with.

Somehow, all of this allows a constant cleansing and replenishing of our energetic field that lends itself remarkably well to spiritual evolution. It means that there is a constant shedding of anything that no longer serves us, as well as letting go of anything aloof that we may have picked up in our everyday interactions. If we didn’t take care of our space then I am pretty certain that my energy would stagnate into a melting pot of confusion and there would be a deadening effect on fulfilling any spontaneous action of the soul. Life would become a drag.

I experience the value in meditating on a daily basis, as well as taking a walk in natural surrounding, or spending time in the garden. Meditation for me often involves sitting on my favourite meditation cushion (which I made last year) and letting go, breathing deeply, seeing what flows. I usually feel pulled to do some Openhand Meditation and then bodywork, which invites a deep cleansing of my field (I find that starting the day ‘renewed’ in this way is immensely uplifting). Sometimes I feel the pull to do yoga and sometimes my body is guided to spontaneous motion inviting energetic release. I honour those pulls trusting that my soul will guide me to that which I need to embrace on any particular day. It never lets me down.

All of these things are instrumental in helping me be ‘Me’. They are a catalyst in assisting the shedding of any layers that would prevent me from being of divine service. It would be inaccurate to say that I always find it easy. This shedding is an ever fine tuning of our individual soulful expression. Shedding layers just shows me how much deeper and deeper and more expansive we become (I think that accepting that it goes on until we dissolve into nothingness entirely helps a lot ).

Trinity